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    Nat Protoc. 2007;2(11):2996-3000.

    Construction of conditional analog-sensitive kinase alleles in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    Gregan J, Zhang C, Rumpf C, Cipak L, Li Z, Uluocak P, Nasmyth K, Shokat KM.

    Department of Chromosome Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria. juraj.gregan@univie.ac.at

    Reversible protein phosphorylation is a major regulatory mechanism in a cell. A chemical-genetic strategy to conditionally inactivate protein kinases has been developed recently. Mutating a single residue in the ATP-binding pocket confers sensitivity to small-molecule inhibitors. The inhibitor can only bind to the mutant kinase and not to any other wild-type kinase, allowing specific inactivation of the modified kinase. Here, we describe a protocol to construct conditional analog-sensitive kinase alleles in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. This protocol can be completed in about 3 weeks and should be applicable to other organisms as well.

    PMID: 18007635 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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